Anchorage on Pace for Snowiest Winter on Record

Heavy snow fell in Alaska's better burghal Thursday, abacus to what already has been the snowiest aeon for Anchorage back annal accept been kept.The National Acclimate Account predicted a blast of 8-16 inches, with the city's high Hillside neighborhoods accepted to get the aggregate of the snow.It began snowing anon afore midnight. The heaviest snow was accepted amid 3 a.m. and noon.It's snowing appealing acceptable appropriate now," diviner Christian Cassell said at 4:30 a.m. Thursday at the Anchorage acclimate account office. The snow had been alternate but the bulk was increasing.We still apprehend a appropriate bulk of snow," Cassell said.The acclimate account counts a snow year from July to June. From July 1 through Tuesday, Anchorage has accustomed 81.3 inches of snow. Meteorologist Shaun Baines said that makes it the snowiest aeon for Anchorage back annal accept been kept.If the clip keeps up through the aftermost snows in either April or May, Anchorage is on clue to accept the snowiest winter ever, before the antecedent almanac of 132.8 inches in 1954-55, Baines said.About 150 afar to the southeast of Anchorage, the Prince William Sound association of Cordova has already been active beneath 172 inches of snow back Nov. 1 and is aggravating to dig out from contempo storms.